Giant Ebisu monument cleaned for New Year
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A giant Ebisu statue gets its year-end cleaning at Osaki Ebisu Shrine in Mooka, Tochigi Prefecture, on Wednesday.Yomiuri-Japan News.
TOKYO - A giant statue of Ebisu, the god of luck and prosperity, got its year-ending dusting off Wednesday at Osaki Ebisu Shrine in Mooka, Tochigi Prefecture.
Dubbed the largest Ebisu in Japan, the 20-meter tall statue was cleaned by seven priests and priestesses - with some standing on an elevating work platform.
In a symbolic measure to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, 5.67-meter-long bamboo brooms were used, as the numbers five, six, and seven can be read together as ko-ro-na in Japanese.